Fuck off IOTA-developer, people can today gzip -9 compress the 1.2GB database to 358MB.
Not to mention, a hub or witness today is hardly putting on any CPU load, so it is even possible to keep the database in memory, compress-decompress on-demand, yet retain same throughput.
Just fuck off IOTA-scammer.
I bet you can find JPG photos on your computer right now. Do gzip -9 on them. And imagine someone stores them in Byteball.